Past Centre Events

Northwest Community College (NWCC) and various mine sites - Smithers, BC

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The course objectives are to increase understanding of metal leaching and acid rock drainage by showing participants the tools, procedures and design requirements; providing an overview of the underlying science and vocabulary; and presenting examples of best practices. A unique...

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The BVRC is proud to host a special lunch hour seminar on June 14th at the Old Church for “eDNA week in Smithers.” Dr. Caren Helbing will be coming to Smithers to offer a seminar on the eDNA work she has been leading in her lab, involving non-invasive DNA water sampling....

The climate of central BC has changed over the past century, generally becoming warmer throughout the year and wetter in spring and summer. These environmental trends benefit a variety of forest disturbance agents including insects such as the mountain pine beetle and...

The Old Church (corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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Johanna will present an update on the Skeena Knowledge Trust (SKT), as well as a demonstration of the Skeena Salmon Data Centre and related Skeena Maps Portal. By providing an easy-to-use portal to access comprehensive curated information, the SKT hopes to empower...

The Old Church (corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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Until recently, the provincial government did not have the means to audit heli-ski operations to assess compliance with wildlife avoidance strategies. Given that the Skeena Region has significant populations of mountain goats within all its heli-ski tenure areas, it was...

The Old Church (corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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This talk will look at what impacts we are already seeing and experiencing in the Skeena watershed. It will also explore the changing conditions in our coastal waters and the North Pacific that have a large impact on how many fish return each year. The Skeena and its people...

The Old Church (corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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The coastal temperate rainforests (CTR) of British Columbia are dynamic zones for the transfer of water and carbon from land to sea. However, little is known about the quantity or quality of carbon exported from the CTR or its fate in coastal ocean food webs. This...

The Old Church (corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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After a quarter century of monitoring plant community responses to different levels of canopy retention, we examined if higher levels of retention promote less change and faster recovery after logging. Most vegetation indicators did show more stability with higher...

We're ringing in the holiday season with a festive holiday social for our members. The BVRC Board of Directors and staff invite you to celebrate the holiday season with us at the office on Friday, December 1st between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m.

As a member-based not-for-profit society, the BVRC would be nothing without the support of its members. We hope you will continue to be a part of the BVRC research community and the valuable research and monitoring work we do in the region.

The Old Church (corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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In honour of GIS Day (November 15, 2017), the BVRC is proud to present an interactive, augmented reality exhibit designed to improve public understanding and stewardship of freshwater lake ecosystems using 3D visualizations. As individuals move the sand, a projected elevation model...

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Since June 17, 2016, medical assistance in dying can legally be provided in Canada by Physicians and Nurse Practitioners for a person who meets eligibility criteria set by the federal government. This presentation will describe how the care is being provided in BC and will...

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When precipitation and surface water runoff come in contact with a log storage facility there is a potential for leachate to develop. The impact of leachate often produces poor water quality resulting in an impact on aquatic life. The development of a constructed wetland...

The Old Church (corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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This study aims to provide water balance of boreal watersheds of northeastern BC using the MIKE SHE hydrological model. More specifically, this study intends to quantify historical and regional water balances of two boreal watersheds—the Coles Lake and Tsea Lake...

The Old Church (corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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Mountains comprise about 50% of the BC and Yukon landbase, and one-third of birds breeding in North America use mountain habitats for at least one critical period of their annual life cycle. Birds have developed exceptional adaptions to live in these environmentally...

The Old Church (corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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In this seminar, Richard Overstall continues the story from previous talks of how a complex, horizontal, bottom-up social order developed on what is now called the North Coast of British Columbia. Earlier presentations showed that the spatial and temporal patterns of...

The Old Church (corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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Intertidal infaunal communities represent a powerful, but currently under-exploited tool with regards to environmental monitoring along the northern coast of British Columbia. Community assemblages (species presence/absence and densities) can be used to elucidate ecosystem...

The Old Church (on the corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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It has been 10 years since the Bulkley Valley Research Centre began its research into the restoration of endangered whitebark pine in northern BC. It is time to celebrate achievements, reflect on challenges, and lay out a strategy to ensure a future for this unique tree...

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British Columbia’s history, identity, and future are inseparable from water; water is essential for the environment, for communities, and for a vibrant economy. This 2-day workshop aims to convene First Nations and Government managers and decision makers for focused discussions...

The Old Church (on the corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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Larry McCulloch will reveal how unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, might be used in natural resource management. He will provide a framework for understanding the potential, limitations, and exigencies involved in UAV use and showcase results from some of...

The Old Church (on the corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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British Columbia’s history, identity, and future are inseparable from water. Water is essential for the environment, for communities, and for a vibrant economy. With a goal of seeing all waters in good ecological condition, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) embarked upon Canada’s...

The Old Church (on the corner of First Avenue and King Street) - Smithers, BC

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The Cowan Biography Project has brought 60 years of journals kept by Ian McTaggart Cowan to light. These now transcribed and digitized journals provide windows into pre-industrialized landscapes of British Columbia from the Ootsa, Peace and Kootenay Rivers and Mackenzie Delta...

The Old Church - on the corner of First Avenue and King St. - Smithers, BC

Image: “Weatherisation at Blackhawk, within the Kiskatinaw River Basin.”

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Precipitation that falls as snow has important social, economic and ecological implications in cool temperate and subarctic regions. The amount of water that held within the snowpack is of particular...

The Old Church - on the corner of First Avenue and King St. - Smithers, BC

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The term “human rights” is often used indiscriminately, to refer to what is moral, what ought to be. In the legal context, however, the term is defined more narrowly. While inspired by “morality”, in Canadian law, human rights are restricted to individuals who face...

The Old Church - on the corner of First Avenue and King St. - Smithers, B.C.

About this seminar: Northeastern British Columbia is undergoing rapid development for oil and gas extraction and this depends largely on subsurface hydraulic fracturing (fracking), which depends on the available freshwater.

The aim of this study is to characterize and quantify all components of...

Please RSVP by Thursday, March 12, letting us know if you will be attending dinner and the meeting or meeting only, if you will be bringing a guest and your menu preferences (menu items can be found below). test

A. AGM NOTICE

Please be advised that Thursday, March 19, 2015 is the date for the...

The Dze L K'ant Friendship Centre Society's Urban Partnership Program, in collaboration with the Bulkley Valley Research Centre, will be holding Community lunch and info sessions in Smithers, Moricetown and Telkwa.

Join us for lunch, share some of your ideas, and learn more about Social Enterprise...

The Bulkley Valley Research Centre hosts its 10th annual general meeting and celebrates a decade of facilitating independent, scientific research in the region on Feb. 25 at the Aspen Riverhouse in Smithers.

The event includes a dinner, short meeting, awards ceremony and anniversary celebration...

Come celebrate the Bulkley Valley Research Centre's 10-year anniversary, November 16, 5 p.m. at the Aspen Inn's Riverhouse Lounge. This is an informal gathering, following the wrap up of our Adding It All Up conference, to mark one decade of facilitating research in northwest B.C. See you there!...

On March 26, 2012, the Bulkley Valley Research Centre hosted over 50 members and guests at its annual general meeting, held at the Aspen Inn's Riverside Grill in Smithers. This annual gathering and awards ceremony recognizes individuals and research that have contributed to sustainability in...

In past years the Bulkley Valley Research Centre, local researchers, and the Northwest BC community at large, have benefited from partnerships with the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation (HCTF) on science-based studies related to wildlife and habitat.

The Bulkley Valley Research Centre will host a videoconference of the FORREX Webinar Series on Cumulative Effects of Natural Resource Use in BC. The event will take place at our office, 1188 Main Street. There are three sessions taking place between 9:00 am and 2:30 pm. A $5 donation to FORREX is...